Pawel Adamowicz

Pawel Adamowicz (2 November 1965-14 January 2019) was Mayor of Gdansk, Poland from 26 October 1998 to 14 January 2019, succeeding Tomasz Posadzki and preceding Aleksandra Dulkiewicz. He was a member of the Civic Platform party; in 2019, an opponent of the party stabbed him to death.

Biography
Pawel Adamowicz was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1965, and he was one of the organizers of the 1988 Solidarity strike, becoming the head of the strike committee. From 1990 to 1993, he served as vice-rector for student affairs at his alma mater, the University of Gdansk, and he was elected to the Gdansk City Council in 1990 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Congress party; he later became a Civic Platform member. Adamowicz was the honorary patron of the Gdansk Gay Pride Parade in 2018, and he was a vocal critic of the Law and Justice Party. On 13 January 2019, he was stabbed in the heart and through the diaphragmm with a knife on stage at a Christmas orchestra charity event, dying of his injuries the following day. The assassin had a long crimianal history, and he had claimed false imprisonment and torture at the hands of the past Civic Platform government.